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This is a personal rant, but here it goes. Living in a country with very hard water and after changing the plunger it takes a few months but inevitably it start
by dsego 6y ago
This is a personal rant, but here it goes. Living in a country with very hard water and after changing the plunger it takes a few months but inevitably it starts to leak. Doesn't matter whether it's single or dual flush. It's like the germans make these to leak so you have to replace the tank valve every so often. Of course, you have to buy one specific to your model and of course you can't just buy the small sealing gasket because that would actually save the environment. Sometimes cleaning the damn thing to remove dirt and limescale or rotating the gasket helps.
- barrkel 6y agoSiphon cisterns don't have this problem, because there's no valve - or rather, there is a valve in the form of a flap of plastic, but it's to lift the initial bit of water over the siphon and not block the rest when it follows.
- Gibbon1 6y agoWhy you can't design a dual siphon model is a bit beyond me.
- thaeli 6y agoI'm surprised these aren't standard. Most American gravity-tank-flush toilets use the same flush valve, and most of the remainder are the tray-tip kind that doesn't really have a flush valve in the traditional sense. There are exceptions and oddities, but it's really nice having singles. Also does mean you can buy just the single part you need. I have no idea how we of all places managed to get this right. Also I do wonder if a scale preventer injector (they go online like a water filter) would be more or less expensive than the toilet parts?
- deepsun 6y agoWhat about siphon system? Is it also afffcted by hard water?
- rleigh 6y agoI lived in one of the hardest water areas in Britain for a long while. Standard syphon flush mechanism was never a problem. May be worth a try. The newer replacements are vastly less durable.